Kalamazoo, May 9-12, 2013: Saints and Sensibility

full name / name of organization:

Hagiography Society

contact email:

saintsandsensibility@gmail.com

We welcome papers that address emotions and affectivity in the cult of the saints. Topics might include the humors, affective meditation; shrines as sites for the performance of affect; liturgical rituals and festivals as education in affect; emotion in the range of hagiographic genres and allied genres. Pity, anger, fear, awe, hatred, mercy, disdain, love etc. all welcome, but also the intentional deformation or absence of affect.